The French company, Trailor made very distinctive tilts called Savoyarde trailers. You could usually tell them by the unusual lacing pattern of the TIR cord round the top of the front bulkhead (see pic below).
I used to pull them out of Dover docks on traction for people like Dentressangle. Some of them had a ‘pulpit’ mounted on the bulkhead to deposit the unfolded canopy when loading thro’ the roof.
Here’s one I picked up in the docks to take up north.
The ones we had were all brand new and very easy to use
I didnt…the replacement sliding roof Euroliners with sideboards (I know you know what a Euroliner is btw, but some on here don’t even know what tilts were/are)… were a vast improvement and much easier when being loaded with overhead crane…(even if you could ask the crane driver to pull the canopy forward on a tilt.)
They started to get a bit arsey at Scunthorpe steelworks about doing that for some reason,… Maybe because the H&S guy was a complete bellend…
We used to wind him up by jumping out of cab just in shorts and flips just to see him running over at us with a red face virtually having a heart attack 
When we put the full clown suit on he took great pleasure in telling my mate his hard hat was ‘‘insecure’’ because no chin strap was on.
My mate took a big roll of sellotape out of cab and proceeded to roll it round and round his chin and top of his hard hat
We had a similar fella at the Phillips Fuel Terminal in Leeds (Albert). Pull under the loading gantry and before you got the engine turned off he would rush about…“get the b loody earth wire on”
“I KNOW ALBERT,CAN I GET OUT OF THE CAB FIRST”
I agree the Euroliners made the job easier but they weren’t as versatile as they had fixed roofs - all the ones I pulled did. However, there were some amazing 13.6 tilts around with sliding canopies. I first saw one in 2001: it was brand new and in Astran livery. Posh as ufkf!
Didn’t we already have them here? As I say, we were calling them tilts here long before the engine.
OED’s earliest evidence for ‘tilt-cart’ is from 1834, in the writing of J. B. Buckstone. But of course it would have been in vocal use before anyone wrote about it.
Shotton steel works wouldn’t pull a tilt. A lot of drivers thought that they were being difficult, perish the thought, but there was a sound reason. The coil grabs they use were fully powered not just the dogs in and out, but they had full control of turning about the axis. On occasion when pulling a tilt, the grabs would twist by the drag of the tilt and rip out the wires from the control box, so that crane was down sometimes for hours whilst the electricians turned up to rewire it. After this had happened numerous times the crane drivers were told no more.
@Bewick …
Hey Dennis, I can’t remember…
Was Milnthorpe Transport part of your Bewick group?
Somebody sent me this pic of an ERF off FB,…apparentlly it says ‘‘New to Milnthorpe Transport in 1978’’.
Originally when MTS was formed I was a 60% shareholder and the Management Accountant I employed at Bewick transport had a 15% share and Alistair Johnston had the remaining 25%. I eventually became unhappy with MTS as it never made a profit during the time I was a shareholder although I was never involved in running MTS. So in 1982 I and my Accountant sold our shares to four individuals three of whom worked for MTS the fourth individual was Alistair Johnston’s mother ! From that time I had nothing further to do with MTS. The name MTS was the idea and decision of my Accountant and not mine I hasten to add ! I hope this answers your question Robroy .
That green daycab 88 …was that the one that always used to run in and out of Immingham about 20 yrs ago
She was even old then.
Yeah i remember it
Yes thats the one, it was still running in the early 2000s, then it went to Ireland got restored.
I wonder if Foden still used that irritating cable-shift for the Fuller 18-sp.
I was warned about the cable change when i got a 1986 Foden with a 9 speed Fuller.I prefered it to the 13 speed in the Iveco i’d been driving gear change wise.The bloke that warned me drove for H Baker and had a few Fodens there all pristine he said keep the cables well lubricated and it will be fine.I never had a problem and found the gear change very precise
No mention of the 240 Percy. 
Likewise. I used a Foden with cables in the late 80’s, never had a minutes problem with the gearchange. (350 Cummins, 9 speed Fuller)
